Chicago Childrens Museum

FREE admission to Chicago Children's Museum with Go Chicago Card or as a choice with the Chicago Explorer Pass

Description

Chicago Children's Museum is the place where play and learning connect! Only at CCM can you scale a towering schooner, build a tall skyscraper to add to the Skyline, dig for bones in a Dinosaur Expedition, create a big splash in WaterWays-and even take in an art class in the Kraft Artabounds Studio.

Three floors of interactive exhibits, plus daily programs, multicultural performances and workshops, offer unlimited learning adventures to kids through age 10 and their families. CCM is located on historic Navy Pier on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Some of the exhibits you can enjoy at Chicago Children's Museum are:

• Dinosaur Expedition
• Kids on the Fly
• Kids Town
• Kovler Family Climbing Schooner
• Skyline
• Treehouse Trails
• WaterWays
• The Allstate Foundation Play It Safe
• Kraft Artabounds Studio
• BIG Backyard

Each of the Chicago Children’s Museum Exhibits provides kids with a different learning experience. The Allstate Foundation Play It Safe exhibit offers kids the chance to explore a realistic firehouse. More importantly it teaches children many important lessons about fire safety through play.

From the firehouse you can then enter the Sahara desert and enter the excavation pit where the fossils of Suchomimus, a giant fish-eating dinosaur, were discovered in 1997.

Kids on the Fly is the perfect exhibit for all the pilots of the future or even for any child who has ever asked “how planes work?” In this exhibit children can fly a plane, man a helicopter, or even become an air traffic controller. Don’t be surprised if the little pilot in you comes out as well!

If this all becomes too much, you and the kids can cool off at the WaterWays exhibit. This fascinating exhibit allows children to understand and control the multi-functional power of water. Using an array of tools children can navigate a boat down the mighty WaterWays river.

Note:

The Go Chicago Card is accepted until 5:00 pm; during all other times standard admission will apply. On rare occasions this attraction closes early due to private functions, outside of the control of Go Chicago Card.

Please note that children ages 1-2 will be charged regular admission at the museum.

Price:

Cost with the card: free

Cost without the card:
Adult (13+): $10.00
Child (3-12): $10.00

Hours:

Sunday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm;
Thursday, 10:00 am-8:00 pm.

Closed:

Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. All holiday hours are subject to change without notice.

Public Transportation:

Take CTA: From downtown connect with buses #29 State, #65 Grand, #66 Chicago or the #124 Navy Pier Express directly to the museum at Navy Pier. Free Trolley service is available daily between Navy Pier and State Street between Grand Avenueand Illinois Street.

Please read: important instructions on how to use your card.

Redemption Instructions:

Please present your Go Chicago Card or Chicago Explorer Pass to any ticket taker. They will validate it, return your card, and let you in.

The Go City Card is accepted until 5:30pm unless otherwise noted; during all other times standard admission will apply.